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Thursday May 7 1936
Peace Seems to Hinge on
World Prosperity
Poland slides off the gold standard and French
stock market prices sag heavily in the face of an
impending radical election victory; and in these
things may be read a forecast of further political
unrest which haa been making that luckless con-
tinent Europe ao unhappy.
For politics seems to follow economics in modern
Europe. Ever since the war disturbed economics
has meant disturbed politics. When a measure of
prosperity arrives the nations get along with them-
selves and with one another; when it departs they
fall out and there is trouble.
For rather more than the first half of the
post-war decade European finance and trade were
highly unsettled; and those years were also a time
of great political unrest.
Pevolt and counter-revolt swept central Eu-
rope. Italy indulged in a Fascist revolution. France
inarched into the Ruhr. Turkey fought the Greeks.
Within and without each country faced disorder
and acute discontent.
Then in 1925 or thereabouts business improved.
Currencies became stabilized international trade
revived war debt and reparations questions were
given temporary settlement. And straightway polit-
ical conditions improved.
The Locarno Treaty was signed the German
republic took a new lease on life; if nothing much
was actually done about disarmament the nations
at least found it in their hearts to talk about it.
Tlie Kellogg Pact was signed amid fine talk about
international friendship. Statesmen found it less
necessary to turn the gendarmes loose on their
own peoples.
Then came another change about five years
later. An economic crisis developed in Austria mov-
ed on to Germany spread all across the continent;
and before long it was reflected in a new more serious
political tension.
Germany embraced dictatorship. Spain had a
revolution. Italy was driven to a desperate foreign
war. There were bloody riots in France. England be-
gan hastily to rebuild her fleet and her air force.
Talk of war and revolution unheard for years
began to be heard on every hand.
It is hard to tell whether economic trouble causes
political trouble or vice versa. Maybe the two
things more or less cause each other. But the one
obvious fact is that they go hand in hand. A
prosperous Europe tends to be a peaceful Europe;
an unprosperous Europe is ripe for war and revolt.
Stating the case like this only emphasizes the
world's dire need for finding the road to interna-
tional economic recovery—and finding it quickly. If
the world hopes to live In peace It must apparently
learn the secret of keeping healthy its trade and
finance.
On the Right Track
New York City went to a vast amount of trouble
to lay hands on Charles (Lucky) Luciano rated as
the city’s Public Enemy No. 1. But now Luciano
fc behind bars faced with indictments charging op
oration of a huge vice ring. In all there are 90
counts against this alleged big-time racketeer.
It is of course a decided victory for the city
to have carried the case even this far. But the real
victory lies in the fact that Luciano is actually
charged with a felony.
Heretofore the worst charge New York has been
able to bring against any of its known racketeers
has been Income tax evasion possession of conceal-
ed weapons or some similar infraction.
Now at last New York offers a precedent in
the war on racketeers. If Luciano is convicted
he theoretically may serve 1950 years. That is the
kind of effective prosecution long overdue in this
country.
Women In Action
Whatever men may think of women’s clubs
and afternoon teas this much is clearly evident —
women are devoting more and more time to serious
consideration of major problems of the day.
Pick up your newspaper any day and you’ll
find that women are engaged in giving attention to
some vital question. Most recently as a case in
point the General Federation of Women’s Clubs
met in Miami to push civil service reform to discuss
the relation of crime to the home and to ex-
pedite action on the child labor problem.
At the same time the League of Women Voters
convened in Cincinnati to thresh out similar vital
issues.
Certainly these activities must be construed as
a wise approach to the casting of an intelligent bal-
lot. It is good citizenship in the making. Men gen-
erally have done no better.
Your Baby's Health
By DR. MORRIS F1SHBEIN
Editor. Journal of the American Medical Assn
and Hygela. the Health Magazine
BABY MUST BE TRAINED TO ACQUIRE GOOD
HABITS AT EARLIEST OPPORTUNITY
A baby is bom without habits. Its habits de-
velop as a result of its care and training and of
course conditions under which it lives.
We form habits by doing the same thing over
and over again imitating actions of other people.
Therefore the child begins to acquire habits on the
day that it is born. If it is to have good habits
parents must plan accordingly.
The baby should be fed at certain hours every
day. It should be put to bed at a regular time.
It should be bathed every day at the same hour.
It should be trained to use the toilet as soon
as the mother is strong enough to begin such train-
ing. In later articles the methods of such train-
ing will be discussed in detail.
• • •
At birth the normal baby can cry nurse sleep
move the arms and legs and sometimes lift its head
very slightly. Babies at birth apparently are able
to distinguish between light and dark but they
are not able to fix their attention on any single
object.
Inability to control the muscles of the eye may
give the young baby a squint or its eyes even may
seem to be crossed. This however should not fright-
en the mother because it is only normal.
• • •
The sense of taste is not developed in little
babies but they seem to be able to distinguish between
sweet sour and bitter. Our sense of taste includes
not only these fundamental traits but also the
odor of food and the feel of the food on the tongue.
Such abilities develop later with education.
A little baby can feel pain but not as acutely
as can babies who are older.
An infant is startled by a loud noise but does
not appreciate small variations in the sense of hear-
ing. Babies recognize noises and voices very soon
after birth but they are unable to recognize par-
ticular sounds for two or three months.
Crime and gangster films are an important fac-
tor in bringing to the American people the facts
that crime is an organized business that a gangster
is a rodent that must be eliminated from American
life. —Charles C. Pettijohn counsel for movie pro-
ducers.
• • •
Walt Disney of the movies has revived for us the
fable of the improvident grasshopper and the thrifty
ants. I ask you not to make grasshoppers of Amer-
ican business corporations. —Fred H. Clausen U. S.
Chamber of Commerce. „
• • •
An educated man is not one who knows every-
thing; he is one who knows where to go and find
the information and to shape his judgment. —Dr.
Robert A. Millikan president California Institute of
Technology.
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Behind the
Scenes in
Washington
BY RODNEY DUTCHER
(Brownsville Herald Washington
Correspondent)
WASHINGTON. May 7. — Most
conscientious Washington corre-
spondents try to skim through the
Congressional Record every day
and it is the unanimous opinion of
this group that never have the con-
tents of that journal been drearier
or less amusing than in the last
few months.
The Record averages about a
dozen attempted wisecracks and
jokes per diem and practically all
are very feeble or at least as fa-
miliar as the celebrated query about
the lady and the retort "that wasn’t
no lady; that was my wife.”
Consequently it becomes in or-
der every now and then to make a
deep bow of appreciation to the
Hon. Maury Maverick congressman
from San Antonio Texas who is
responsible for most of such humor
as occasionally .does creep in.
Maury probably is the most vol-
uble and fastest-talking of any of
the intelligent members of Con-
gress and by all odds when he
wants to be the funniest.
Frequently obsessed by serious
purposes he nevertheless usually
seems to be getting more enjoy-
ment out »of life than practically
anyone else. If you don’t like his hu-
mor please at least remember that
it's the best grade available here.
Nemesis -of “Red Menace”
One of the Hon. Mr. Maverick’s
aims in life is to explode the “Red
Menace” bogey and prove it a red
herring so charlatans who use it
to block occasionally threatened
steps of human progress may be
made to pipe down.
Consider for a moment his de-
fense of a pamphlet on American-
ism issued by the New York Coun-
ty American Legion which has been
bitterly attacked because it es-
poused the causes of free speech
free press liberty of conscience and
freedom of religion.
Maverick a member of the Le-
gion and the Veterans of Foreign
Wars discussed the pamphlet at
some length and finally tossed the
following into the Record under the
title "Ihe 14 points of the Red
Menace.”
"Since red in itself is a sin a
logical dissertation on the effects
is in order . . .:
"1. Congressman Sirovich of New
York cannot wear his red carna-
tion in the lapel of his coat. He
will simply die. Florists will pro-
test.
"2. New Yorkers going hunting
upstate cannot wear red flannels.
Many will catch pneumonia flu
and colds. Will help doctors and
undertakers but hurt general wel-
fare of citizens.
Out With Red Wine
"3. Red wine prohibited. Dis-
crimination as to white wines. No
use going to Italian restaurants.
Grape growers will protest. People
will get drunk anyway.
"4. Seeing ‘red’ will also be abol-
ished. In this many red-baiters
will suffer serious inhibitions and
mental maladjustments.
"5. Lure of red-headed girls the
handsomeness of red-headed boys
to be eradicated by federal law’s.
Will cause importation of non-fad-
ing German dyes to make color of
hair different. This will hurt ‘Buy
American’ campaign; besides in this
case the importation will be a met-
amorphosis from Communism to
Fascism.
“6. Red herrings cannot be drawn
across issues. This would also be
a blow to red-baiters. Old pals of
A1 Smith at Fulton Fish Market
will protest.
"7. Music Red Sails in the Sun-
set. popular hit. no doubt subver-
sive. Communistic atheistic anar-
chistic and other things worse;
must not be allowed.
And No Red Stick Candy!
"8. Children the little dears must
be free of red stick candy. This
sounds innocent but one cannot
realize how sinister candy can be.
It is understood they eat red candy
in Red Russia; therefore we must
stop it here.
“9. Red traffic lights abolished;
substitute color not determined;
For Stamp Fans
_
nary of the founding of the col-
ony at Antigua thi* stamp was
issued in 1932. Antigua U a
British possession.
FOLLY and FAREWELL HHi
BEGIN HERE TODAY .
LINDA BOURNE 30 year* old
pretty la left almost penniless by
the sadden death of her father.
PETER GARDINER newspaper
reporter helps her yet a Job writ-
lay society news. Linds t» In lore
with DIX CARTER bnt he yoes
abroad to stndy staying. When
Peter asks her to marry him she
agrees bnt postpones the wed-
ding.
HONEY HARMON Him star
' cornea to Newtowa making a
“personal appearance” tour. She
buys a scenario written b> Linda.
Linda goes to Hollywood and
there expressing Ideas that are
really Peter’s she acquires a rep-
utation for being able to dlscorer
new stars.
At a party glren by Honey
Harmon Linda meets BASIL
THORNE director. She goes out
Into the night alone. Suddenly
Thorne appears beside her takes
her In his arms and kisses ker.
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
CHAPTER XIV
LINDA refused to accept the
threat in Honey’s voice. There
was no reason for it; therefore it
couldn’t exist. Smiling and friend-
ly she said good night to Honey
and to Basil Thorne separately
and went to her room. Sunday
ahe pleaded work breakfasted pri-
vately.- and spent the morning read-
ing. In the afternoon she gathered
up a foursome for bridge and at
5 she left without saying more
than the most casual banalities to
Basil Thorne.
But returned to her apartment
In Beverly Hills her gaze wan-
dered toward the telephone and
each time it rang exhilaration
lifted her swiftly and left her as
swiftly as she heard a voice that
was not Thorne’s.
For five days Thorne didn’t tele-
phone her. That didn’t surprise
Linda. She expected that he would
play his game that way. He knew
he had made an impression; now
he would let her wonder a bit. He
reckoned without Linda’s purpose-
fulness. Knowing the situation
between Honey and Thorne she de-
cided she would not see him.
• • •
"OUT for once Linda did not abide
by her own decision. Basil
Thorne telephoned her the sixth
day of that week and asked her
to dine at his house. To her own
surprise she accepted and spent
the next hour in a fever of dress-
ing. Her hair wouldn’t behave.
The.red frock looked too bold the
white one too virginal the black
one too dressed-up. She wore a
frosty gray pinned violets at the
waist and flung a mink cape over
her shoulders.
Speeding over the smooth roads
to Brentwood and Thorne’s pala-
tial "shack” as she called the 18
rooms she reminded herself that
she was a grown woman capable
of handling any situation and that
a man only took advantage of a
woman when the woman wanted
him to. While many men had
made love to her in Hollywood
none had presumed to treat her as
a woman other than she was. And
while she was telling herself these
things her excitement mounted
and made her flushed and lovely
when she stepped into the great
hall of Thorne’s house*.
He was not there to greet her.
Linda was accustomed to bad man-
ners. She had met them frequent-
ly in the last year but she was as-
tonished that Thorne had been
guilty of such bad taste. A Chi-
nese butler took her wrap. She
touched a lipstick to her mouth
patted her hair and lit a cigaret.
Then she strolled into the living-
room. i
There was an eight-foot lounge
before the hearth and reposing in
unlovely slumber dressed for din-
ner with a dressing gown in place
of his dinner jacket was her host!
He was snoring gently. Not that
the “gently” part helped. He
might have trumpeted and the ef-
fect would have been no worse.
Fastidious Linda shuddered and
was lost to him.
He was aware of her then and
opened his eyes shook his head
rose unsteadily to his feet and
spoke thickly. “Sorry Little Linda.
Dropped off to a nap. Be all right
in a minute.” His words slurred
slightly and he roared “Cock-
tails!”
* r *
T INDA took one from the tray
and sipped it. She was strick-
en to silence. The evening had
gone completely flat. She watched
Thorne gulp two of the cocktails
in quick succession saw his hand
steady and his eyes cloud.
She didn’t quite know what to
do but when he pulled her down
on the lounge beside him she
slipped from his gTasp smiling
and still smiling left him. He
didn’t realize until she was well
down the road in search of a tele-
phone that she had gone.
That finished Basil Thorne with
Linda but it did not remove him
from her life. And that week had
awakened in her a loneliness a
need for affection to have and to
bestow.
The next day he telephoned. He
called her at the studio and he
called her at home. He sent her
a charming note of apology and
enough flowers to lend a funereal
effect to her four-room apartment.
But she refused to talk to him or
see him.
After that she accepted no invi-
tations until she was certain that
the guest list did not Include his
name. She saw him at lunch at
the Brown Derby. She met tym
at the Los Angeles Athletic Club.
He sat two tables away from her
at the Clover Club and each time
she nodded and smiled but was
careful to avoid having to speak
to him. Linda had learned that
one does not make enemies in Hol-
lywood.
For many weeks nothing hap-
pened to disturb the smooth rou
tine of her way. She had much
work to do and worked hard. 8h©
had discovered an elderly actress
In the ranks of extras and was
writing her first big role for her.
She was very careful these days
to pick her way surely through the
precipices of Judgment She was
a success but one slip and she
knew she would find her work un-
done.
see
“Remembrance** was being done by
the Theater Guild on Broadway.
Linda thanked her had a moment
of being happy that Pete had ar-
rived made a note to send him a
telegram asked her secretary to re-
mind her to send it end forgot all
about it
That was at the time that Take
a Letter” was finally being filmed
and Linda found herself acting as
co-producer. She was on the set
all day in the projection room
watching the rushes by night and
squeezing sleep in when she could.
That picture was all hers.
Young slim executive* she was
as attractive to the extra girls as
the star herself. They called out
shy greetings to her found ways
to wait on her. She was practical-
ly a producer. If she liked a girl
she might help her.
“Miss Bourne there’s an extTi
a boy who lives at my boarding
house who says he used to know
you” one of them said to her one
morning. “His name la Dixon
Carter.”
Miss Bourne didn't flutter a sin-
gle dark eyelash.
“Really? Dlx Carter? Of course
he knew me! We were friends
when he was In college. I didn't
know he was in Hollywood. I’d
like to see him some time.”
Linda waited for the next line
as though It were not terribly im-
portant to her.
“1*11 tell him if you don’t mind.
I know he’d like to see you.”
Linda smiled and walked away.
She wanted to tell the girl her
telephone number and address but
she didn’t dare. Dlx would know
where to reach her if he wanted to.
The girl had said Dlx was an extra.
That perplexed her and she tried
to forget It She tried not to want
to see him. But the very next
morning when he came she told
her secretary to show him In and
take a message to someone four
floors away and wait for an an-
swer.
"Hello Dix” she said.
“Hello Linda” he answered. “I
always thought you were beautiful
but then I thought I had only
Imagined it . . . but you’re Just
the way I’ve been thinking of r»:5U
every day since . . .'*
Linda didn’t say anything. She
couldn't say “I still love you too.”
(To Be Continued)
I
will give work to scientists. Acci-
dents.
“10. Children in getting diplomas
must not be allowed red ribbons.
“Red tape must be made blue;
however the change of colors will
not affect red tape psychology or
human nature.
“12. The high curtains in the su-
preme court building which are
red or near red must be replaced
at once. This would shock even the
Liberty Leaguers the National
Manufacturers’ Association and also
the United States Chamber of Com-
merce meeting in solemn conclave
in this our national capital today.
“13. Red ink will be abolished;
and this is really good for then
there would be no depression. With
only black ink the profit system
would be assured ad infinitum.
“14. Bulls will not get mad any
more. This may cause serious dif-
ficulties in certain Latin-American
relations.”
Danes Build Ships For Russia
COPENHAGEN (/P>— Russia has
ordered three ships of 4000 tons
each from a Danish shipyard along
with considerable machinery to be
naid for with timber products art
wares and fresh fruit according to
the newspaper Politiken.
Dinner btories
SINGLE BLESSEDNESS
First Commuter: I was aston-
ished this morning to find a $10 bill
in my pocket. *
Second Commuter: Mm-m; I al-
j ways thought you were married.
CREDIT BELONGS TO SON
“Your father looks very distin-
guished with his snow-white hair.”
“Yes he has me to thank for that.”
ONE MINUTE PULPIT
For the love of money is the root
of all evil: which while some covet-
ed after they have erred from the
faith and pierced themselves
through with many sorrows. — I
Timothy 6:10.
Hath not the potter power over
the clay of the same lump to make
one vessel unto honour and an-
other unto dishonour? — Romans
9:21.
London's best protection against
the risk of earthquakes is the bed.
of clay which lies below the city.
__
The pinna Nobilis. a shell fish
spins silk. Early Italians used this
I silk in the manufacture of cloth.
Grab Bag
Who was Hammurabi?
For what bodily characteristic Is
Trilby famous?
What had the following in com-
mon: Talleyrand Turgot Richelieu
Colbert Sully Gambetta?
Correctly Speaking
Do not join a relative clause to
a principal clause by "and” "but”
or "for”.
Words of Wisdom
From labor health from health con-
tentment spring;
Contentment opens the source of
every Joy. —James Beattie.
Answers to Foregoing Questions
1. The first great codifier of laws
King of Babylon (1958-1916 B. C.)
2. Beautiful feet. She is the
heroine of ‘‘Trilby” a novel by Du
Maurier 1834-1896.
3. They were French statesmen.
Barbs
Chicago test reveals a sleeping
person moves once every ten min-
utes which seems an unusually brief
period between nightwatchman’s
rounds.
• • •
Now that AAA depredations among
them have ceased little piggies seem
to be making a comeback. A Ken-
tucky girl was born with fourteen
toes.
• • •
Strange as it may seem a woman’s
organization in Washington is study-
ing the matter of arms reduction
not that of hips.
• • •
This is an age of humanitarian-
ism. Cook County has fitted its elec-
tric chair with cushions and the
Italian army uses poison gas scented
with hyacinth.
• • •
Greta Garbo refused to send her
footwear for display at a New York
shoe exhibit. Perhaps there was dif-
ficulty about who should pay the
freight charges.
** • •
While he was down in the bowels
of the earth the Toronto surgeon
might have passed his time studying
mineral veins.
NAZIS WAR ON DRUNKS
IN KOENIGSBERG STREETS
KOENIGSBERG Germany (JP> —
Public drunkenness is being put
down here with an iron hand.
Special patrols scout the streets
for drunks and yatch saloons for
tipplers showing * signs of being
"half seas over.” They are taken to
the nearest police station and kept
in cells until they are sober.
Labor front officials are appoint-
ed to see to it that offenders’ pay
envelopes are handed to their wives
or families to prevent earnings be-
ing spent on booze.
In one month 197 persons were
forcibly made bone-dry in this man-
ner.
Ten weeks are required to
hatch the eggs of Australian
emu.
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(Questions
BY tfUUMUUC 4. IAOIII
A reader cab get the answer to any
question at feet by writing Tbe
Brownsville Herald Informs (Son
Bureau. Frederic J. Haefcln. DtrediBt.
Washington. D. 0. Please encloee
three (3) cents for reply.
Q. With what countries has the
United Staten signed trade agree-
merits? DJMoC.
A. Trade agreements have bees
signed with the following countries:
Cuba Brazil Belgium Haiti Swed-
en Netherlands Switzerland Co-
lombia Honduras Canada and
Nicaragua. The agreements with Co-
lombia and Nicaragua are not yet
in effect since the period of notion
hat not yet expired. Agreements
are pending with the following:
Costa Rica Guatemala Spain Fin-
land Italy France and San Sal-
vador.
Q. Did the governors of the Amer-
ican colonies have veto power? BIN.
A. The governors had absolute
veto power and In all except Mary-
land. Connecticut and Rhode Is-
land the King could prevent a bill
from becoming law even after It
had been approved by the governor.
Q. What newspaper won the Ayer
Cop this year? E. G.
A. The New York Herald Tribune
has been awarded permanent pos-
session of the Francis Wayland Ayer
Oup for typographic excellence.
Q. Where Is the monument to a
hen? H.J.
A. It is in Little Compton Rhode
Island and was erected in 1936 by
the Rhode Island Red Club of
America to commemorate the origin
of that breed of fowl.
Q. Please give some information
about the new Interior Building tn
Washington D. C. E.R
A. The cost of the building Is
estimated at $12000000. Two city
blocks of five and a half acres ex-
tending from C to E streets and
from 18th to 19th Sts. N. W. are
covered by the structure. It Is 575
feet long by 383 feet wide and will
be seven floors In height with an
eighth floor above the central unit
and a basement. Every room Is an
outside room. There are two miles
of corridors exclusive of which the
net usable area Is approximately
700000 square feet. The gross area
is 1060000 square feet.
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Q What were the Alabama
Claims? A.F.D.
A. They were claims of the United.
States against Great Britain for
losses inflicted on shipping by the
Alabama Shenandoah. and other
Confederate vessels fitted out in
British ports during th* Civil War.
The United States claimed $19021-
428 In direct losses and many times
that amount In Indirect losses. The
matter was arbitrated in 1871 igid
In the following year the Geneva
Tribunal awarded the United States
an Indemnity of $15500000 in gold.
This was paid by Great Britain In
1873.
Q. Who published the Old Oka
Collier Library? LC.
A. This dime-novel series was
published by the house of Munro
during the latter part of the 19th
century.
Q. Please give a list of some fam-
ous people born in April E. M. 8.
A. A few whose birthdays oc-
curred in April are: Hans Chris-
tian Anderson April 2. 1805; John
Burroughs April 8. 1837; Raphael
Sanzio Italian painter April 6
1483; Lorenzo de Medici April 8
1449; Shakespeare April 23 1564;
and Walter De La Mare April 25
1873.
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